Doctoral Dissertation Research: Constructions of Citizenship and Peoplehood in Guam's Quest for Commonwealth

博士论文研究：关岛寻求英联邦过程中的公民身份和民族建设

• 批准号: 9422660
• 负责人: Kim Lane Scheppele
• 金额: $ 0.85万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-03-15 至 1996-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9422660&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Constructions; Citizenship

9422660 Schepple The objective of this project is to investigate important questions about the rights and basic meaning of citizenship through a case study of the people of Guam. This study views citizenship as a set of practices (juridical, political, economic, and cultural) that embody a wide range of modernizing processes in law, politics and culture. It views peoplehood, or indigenous identity, as a set of practices that resist, appropriate, and transform citixenship practices. The research draws together new theoretical and methodological approaches to narrative studies in law and in social science history with empirical studies in citizenship. This study involved the solicitation and collection of narratives through individual and focus group interviews and through document study in Guam and selected mainland sites. These narratives will be examined for what they reveal about how the people of Guam understand their political status and how they represent their identities in making rights claims. The study will focus on episodes of rights claim seeking that will enable a critical analysis of the applicability of T. H. Marshall's theoretical narrative of the evolution of civil, political and social rights. %%% This study will investigate how the people of Guam are seeking a change in their political status to achieve an enhancement of the benefits and constitutional protections of the citizenship status granted them in 1950. It will also analyze how the Chamoru people are working to achieve federal recognition of their status as the indigenous people of the island and of their right to self-determination, It will seek to explain why these two sets of possibly conflicting claims to rights are converging, what are the historical and institutional contexts in which these claims are made, how these contexts affect how the people of Guam understand their political identities, and what Guam's quest for commonwealth status signifies for the meaning of citizenship, membership, and sovere ignty in the United States and its territories. ***

9422660 Schepple这个项目的目的是通过对关岛人民的案例研究来调查有关公民身份的权利和基本意义的重要问题。 这项研究将公民身份视为一系列实践（法律，政治，经济和文化），这些实践体现了法律，政治和文化中广泛的现代化过程。 它将人类或土著身份视为抵制，适当和改变Citixenship实践的一组实践。 该研究通过公民身份的经验研究将新的理论和方法论方法汇总为法律和社会科学历史上的叙事研究。 这项研究涉及通过个人和焦点小组访谈以及在关岛和选定大陆地点进行的文档研究来招标和收集叙事。 这些叙述将被检查，以了解关岛人民如何理解其政治地位以及他们如何代表他们在提出权利主张中的身份的情况。 该研究将重点介绍权利主张的情节，以寻求对T. H. Marshall对民事，政治和社会权利演变的理论叙事的适用性进行批判性分析。 这项研究将调查关岛人民如何寻求改变其政治地位的改变，以增强1950年授予公民身份的收益和宪法保护。它还将分析Chamoru人们正在努力实现联邦承认自己的地位，以实现他们对自己岛上的土著人以及他们的权利的权利，这两次构成的权利，这是如何构成自我竞争的，这是他们的权利，这是两者的反应，这是两者的责任，这是两者的构成权限，而这两次构成了这种构成的权限，那么这两个人的权利是构成的。提出这些主张的历史和制度背景，这些背景如何影响关岛人民如何理解其政治身份，而关岛对联邦地位的追求表示对美国及其领土的公民身份，成员身份和Sovere Indty的意义。 ***